Wheel.



l L. WILLIS.

WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY-28. 1911.

PatentdJuly 27, 1915.

x I I WWN INVEQINTOR LELAND -wn |s BY HIS ATTORNEY WITNE5SES Application filed .z'uly 28, 1911.. Serial No. 841,668.

zen of the United States, residing in ire-n? loch, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Wheels, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to that class oi WllQClS having a hub composed of opposite members *ith openings for the reception of the looped inner ends of What are termed hair in spokes said hub members also having); lugs for engzigin the loops and hearing surfaces 13: 'he l of each spoke. The object oi my invention is to struce such :1 wheel fihat it can he read plied to or reino 1 from *fhe axle *ithoue :iiieetiics; the llgilu relation one m1" of the hub :mei'nhers, and therefore in loosening or disturbing the spokes, and. i he readily centered on l-hr This object l .ei'rzlin in the manner he reference hei "mixing, in Figure 1 eonssruczed 1n sceordan with my inversion, the spokes being applied to but one member of the hub, and Hi 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line (II- 1, Fig. 1 with the addition of a grease cup thereto.

The hub of the Wheel is composed of one posits heads, 1 and 2, each providedwith' openii'ig' 3 lugs i,

V: and hearing races 5 for the inner looped en s of hair pm spokes, each leg 6 of the spoke heme; intended to be suitebl secured as its outer end, to the rim of the Wheel.

The head 1 has a short huh member 7 Wh'ch is securely clamped bK-ZZWQBH shoulders and on the member hub 11 oi she other lead 2, as shown in Fig. 2, the hub members o being; united by first slip-- member huh '3' of the head 1 ever on-5, (i outer end of the member hub 11 0 id 2 and then srreging or expsndizi he outer end of reduced portion of i iher hub 11 so to cause it to hear firml against the outer face, of the member huh l JIT and press the inner face of said ineniher'huh 7 firmly against the shoulder 9 of the meming having thereon a conical Ha her hub 11. To the wieel hub thus con structed is adapted a bushing n" 'cli has, near its inner end, a shoulder bearing ugninst s sent surrounding the bore at the inns face of the head 2, said bushing being alsothreaded externally for the reception of a nut 1%, which has a shoulder seated against the flaring shoulder 10 which is formed at the outer end the member hub 11 of the head and serves to secure theret the member hub of the head 1. B screiiing up the nu i iing 12 is scour.

the oushin 12 and nu; 7o

14-, and their corre spending in the hub of the Wheel, are

coned or beveled whereby xvi is screwed up to "peel ion the bus n iil. be properly centered in respect so huh the Wheel and the letter Will run true upon the axle.

The bushing 19 has, ah its inner end, a collsr 17 which can engaged by a. suitable retainer on the axle or other portion -Lhe vehicle so that when the can 16 and nut 14: unscrewed from the bushing the wheel can be removed Without Withdrawing; the hushing from the axle.

I clsinit 1. The ccmnhination in a. wheel, of a a ii?" conical face, with a hub comprising bwo THGLllJEFS one having a: one end coiiicel sent for the flange of the hu (her end 11 flange x ii: Whiel'i coiisti .l s a bnshL nner of 2th nod member of With two me ers one hr cal seat for the flange of the bushing and at the other end a flaring flange with conical inner and outer faces, with the outer face constituting a seat for the net on the bushing and the inner face serving to lock the second member of the hub in engagement with the first.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

- LELAND WILLIS. Witnesses:

HARRY SNYDER, 7 R. F. TYSON. 

